WASHINGTON TALK: BRIEFING

WASHINGTON TALK: BRIEFING; Chanting for Iran

Published: May 25, 1987

Every few weeks an Iran-related demonstration takes place in the streets of Washington. Sometimes it is in favor of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and sometimes it is against. In either case, passers-by usually pay little notice. But ears picked up last week when a pro-Khomeini group marching by the White House sounded the cadences of an American sports cheer familiar to anyone who has attended a high school football game. The marchers shouted: ''East is East and West is West; Islam, Islam is the best.''